While it's very nice to be invited to join "a community of 6.6 million programmers, just like [me]" it seems a little bit odd to join that community of "6.6 million programmers" when it already includes me.

I am logged in, viewing the home-page of Stack Overflow; the left section of the image, below, shows my active (albeit pixelised) inbox, and the right shows a slightly less inbox-obscured view of the page as I currently see it:

Admittedly there are no free-hand red-circles, for which I can only apologise. But what gives? Is this a result of the recent network problem or a bug of another kind?